How learning helps to cope the stress

Is it necessary to learn something now? Among other things, it is necessary to study. Any learning is one of the most frequent strategies for stress tolerance.

• It allows you to shift your attention to something else. And by doing so, protect your brain from stress.
• It gives a closed structured system that requires less energy.
• It occludes a stable space and increases inner security.
• You can rely on the tutor and get fueled by them.
• By communicating with like-minded people, you have a chance to get warm from your classmates and reduce the stress — oxytocin up, cortisol down!
• You can enjoy the insights.
• And in general, the fact of learning new things and understanding how something works activate the dopamine system, that is, the system of pleasure and the ability to look forward.
• It also gives the brain the signal that we are not surviving but living because there is a future in which we will use new skills.

With fellow tutors, we are now discussing how learning has changed in the current times. It is very evident how difficult it has become with hard-skills training. That said, I really want to boot into some complex schemes, a new language, a new skill, and get something explicit, and tangible, with a medal. Something to rely on. But it doesn’t work out so well…

Not only does it take nine times as much energy to learn, but it also requires the prefrontal cortex for hard skills — logic, structure, that sort of thing

Now it definitely makes sense to shift to soft skills. They are especially important in times of instability, including such ephemeral things as stress tolerance, the ability to keep a resource, teamwork in constant change, and change management. Now it’s harder to want to learn soft skills — they’re less clear, it’s unclear how to rely on them, and you don’t get credit for them.

I can’t say that I’ve learned change management or resource states — it’s an ongoing process that the world is also constantly trying to bite